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    Question I cannot input enum class value

    I have defined a enum class:

    Code:
    enum class Genre
    {
    	fiction, nonfiction, periodical, biography, children
    };
    And another class:

    Code:
    class Book
    {
    public:
    	string f_title() { return title; }
    	string f_author() { return author; }
    	string f_isbn() { return isbn; }
    	Genre f_genre() { return g; }
    	int f_day();
    	int f_month();
    	int f_year();
    	Book(string tit, string aut, string isbn, Genre g);
    	Book(string tit, string aut, string isbn);
    	Book();
    	class Invalid {};
    private:
    	string isbn, title, author;
    	int day, month, year;
    	Genre g;
    };
    I am stuck because I am not able to directly input values because I am not able to correctly set helper function. I had to create two different ones:

    Code:
    istream& operator>>(istream& is, Book& n)
    {
    	string title, author, isbn;
    
    	getline(is,title);
    	getline(is,author);
    	getline(is,isbn);
    	isbn.resize(7);
    
    	if (!is) return is;
    
    	n = Book{ title,author,isbn };
    
    	return is;
    }
    
    istream& operator>>(istream& is, Genre& g)
    {
    	int i;
    	is >> i;
    	g = (Genre)i;
    
    	return is;
    }
    but my program skips the Genre helper function and returns to me the default value "N/A".

    How can I fix it?

    Thanks!

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    Re: I cannot input enum class value

    Where do you invoke stream extraction for a type Genre?
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    Re: I cannot input enum class value

    Quote Originally Posted by 2kaud View Post
    Where do you invoke stream extraction for a type Genre?
    Do you mean this?

    Code:
    ostream& operator<<(ostream& os, Book& n)
    {
    	return os << "Title: " << n.f_title() << endl
    		<< "Author: " << n.f_author() << endl
    		<< "ISBN: " << n.f_isbn()  << endl
    		<< "Genre: " << n.f_genre() << endl;
    }

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    Re: I cannot input enum class value

    I solved the issue!

    I have split out the helper function in two distinct, then in main() I have separated cin creating a specific object for Genre enum class. It works perfectly! Thank you anyway

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